DEADLINE ALERT: Time for Action on Drupalcon Boston 2008

By jwhatcott on 31 Jan 2008 at 18:40 UTC

All Star General Session Speakers

We've lined up some incredible general session speakers. These guys rock, and hearing from them is reason enough by itself to come to Drupalcon.

Monday March 3: Dries Buytaert, Drupal Project Lead and Acquia CTO and his traditional "The State of Drupal" speech

Tuesday March 4: Chris DiBona, Google Open Source Program Manager

Wednesday March 5: Brian Aker, Director of Architecture at MySQL AB

Incredible Momentum

Drupalcon Boston 2008 is shaping up to be the biggest and best Drupalcon ever. We crunched some numbers this week to compare the pace of registrations between Boston and Barcelona and found that registrations for Boston are running 50% higher than Barcelona at the equivalent stage of the registration cycle (~225 vs. ~150).ﾠ That's incredible momentum, and as long as we have the expected surge in registrations over the next two weeks we'll be in great shape to hit our goal of 500+ attendees.

By Feb 11: Submit Your Session Proposal

Many great sessions have already been submitted. But not enough. So we're setting the session submission deadline for February 11 at 11 p. m. Eastern time (04:00 GMT). If you've been thinking about submitting a session, it's time to put fingers to keyboard and make it happen. And if you are expecting a specific session by a specific person but don't see it on the listings on the site, then please pester the presenter to get the session on the agenda.

By Feb 18: Get Registered, Pay, and Book Hotel

If you haven't registered AND paid your fee (need to be logged in), then the time is now. We've reserved a bunch of hotel rooms at discounted rates. But they go away on February 18 - we can't expect the hotel to hold them forever. So if you want to get a great room at a great rate, you need to get moving.

Comments

Live video from DrupalCon?

JohnForsythe commented 2 February 2008 at 18:15

There might be a better place to post this, but it'd be awesome if someone would stream this live. I'd recommend Stickam, they're a free live-video broadcaster, and I think they could handle the traffic. You just need a webcam and a half-decent broadband connection. It'd be great exposure for Drupal, too.

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Video but not live

Amazon commented 5 February 2008 at 02:04

Hi, we are going to record video and upload it. The Boston Convention and Exposition Conference has 119 wireless access points, we think that the few in our corner will suffice to meet simple needs like checking email.

We've got a private network for speakers so they can present, but don't believe we've got enough bandwidth to stream four sessions. If we get enough volunteers, we could distribute and process the video relatively quickly.

If you are interested in helping with the video processing, jump into #drupalcon and I'll connect you with our team of video volunteers.

Kieran Lal
Board member of the Drupal association
Coordinator of the security team
Coordinator of the test driven development team

Kieran Lal